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People absorb information in many ways. Community Commons presents BLS unemployment rates data in several ways in order to help readers better understand publicly available data.
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Considering a data quality program? What?s the best way to implement it? One of the decisions that organizations must make is where data quality (Trillium?s focus) fits within their overall approach to technology architecture and business solutions. Is data quality technology a ?solution? unto itself or is it a service that is delivered to other solutions. Let?s look to some industry commentary for guidance.
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Please consider submitting a paper for a special issue of the Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics on urban, regional and small area statistics. Papers dealing with geographical and other breakdowns of official statistics related to relevant urban and regional planning, territorial and targeted policies on various levels of government are welcome. Papers dealing with the challenges and solutions of integration of geospatial and statistical data are most welcome.
The call embraces also new and evolving uses of small area statistics, e.g., easy access and open access to official statistics of high granularity showing the importance of official statistics in facilitating citizens’ participation. The deadline for submitting a manuscript is December 1st, 2016. Authors are requested to submit their manuscript electronically to the journal?s editorial management system. The length of the manuscript would preferably be 10 -15 pages including tables, graphs and references.
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A topic guide by Liz Carolan ??introduces evidence and lessons learned about open data, transparency and accountability in the international development context. It discusses the definitions, theories, challenges and debates presented by the relationship between these concepts, summarises the current state of open data implementation in international development, and highlights lessons and resources for designing and implementing open data programmes.?
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The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness?s (CREC?s) State Data Sharing Initiative (SDS) seeks to improve workforce and economic development program outcomes by encouraging data sharing to enable more rigorous policy analysis and program evaluation. SDS convened 18 representatives from five participating states, including Iowa, Minnesota, South Carolina, Utah, and Wisconsin, for a two-day All States Meeting, held September 20-21, 2016 in Washington, DC. During the workshop, state representatives worked together to deconstruct and share experiences with key data sharing challenges. CREC staff and partners also worked with individual state teams to begin drafting Action Plans that will guide their efforts to improve the data sharing environment in their own state, and to help establish best practices for the nation?s benefit.
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The U.S. Census Bureau and the University of Texas System (UT) have signed a 10-year agreement that will allow for a fuller analysis of UT graduate outcomes and earnings. Under this pilot partnership, the Census Bureau will provide UT with data from its Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics program (LEHD). Although UT already collects employment outcomes information about students who remain in Texas, this project will help track its students who move outside of the state.
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New & Updated Data Sources
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Looking for hard numbers on travel trends? Bookmark this handy online compendium of graphs, charts, and stats.
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Visualization of the Week
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Oliver O?Brien of the University College of London has created a data visualization called ?Tube Heartbeat? visualizing the flow of passengers on London?s underground rail network every 15 minutes during a typical weekday. The visualization is a time lapse depicting Tube ridership from 5:00 AM to 2:00 AM the following day, with different train lines and stations pulsing in size to reflect the varying number of riders, and arrows on the lines changing to show the dominant direction of travel. Users can select any of the 268 stations to see the number of riders that enter, exit, and transfer through the station in 15-minute intervals. Tube Heartbeat uses open data from the City of London?s Rolling Origin and Destination Survey, an annual survey of how rail passengers commute daily.
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Notable Data Publications
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Did you work on a great report that you want your colleagues to know about? Just email us and we?ll include it here.
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APDU maintains a list of open calls for comment on proposed federal data collections. We periodically alert APDU members to newly added calls for comment. Over the last several weeks, calls for comment on the following proposed data collections were published in the Federal Register (with due date):
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National Center for Education Statistics
- National Teacher and Principal Survey of 2017-2018 (NTPS 2017-18) Preliminary Field Activities (October 28, 2016)
- Middle Grades Longitudinal Study of 2017-18 (MGLS:2017) Operational Field Test (OFT) and Recruitment for Main Study Base-Year (October 28, 2016)
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